<div><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/58485f86dd08953d448b4c0c-2200" alt="Bratz dolls" data-mce-source="REUTERS/Stephen Hird" data-mce-caption="A Bratz doll (L) is seen with its foot on a Barbie Doll (lying down) and another Bratz doll (R) at the Dream Toys 2004 exhibition, which previews the year's top 10 toys and offers predictions from the Toy Retailers Association of the most popular toys for Christmas, in London, October 6, 2004. At the ripe old age of 45, Barbie was knocked off her perch on Wednesday by streetwise upstart Bratz in the Christmas battle of the dolls." /><p class="source"><span>REUTERS/Stephen Hird</span></p><p class="caption">A couple of Bratz dolls bullying a Barbie doll.</p></div><p></p></div></div></div><p>The hardest thing about shopping for toys might just be keeping up with the latest fads. Every year has its hottest toy that every kid wants, whether its Tamagotchis or Bratz dolls.</p><p>Ebates put together <a href="https://www.ebates.com/blog/hardest-to-buy-toys-before-the-holidays/">a list of the most popular toy</a> for each year since 1983. Here's what the kids were after.</p>

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The hardest-to-find toys each holiday season since 1983

REUTERS/Stephen HirdA couple of Bratz dolls bullying a Barbie doll.The hardest thing about shopping for toys might just be keeping up with the latest fads. Every year has its hottest toy that every kid wants, whether its Tamagotchis or Bratz dolls.Ebates put together a list of the most popular toy for each year since 1983. Here's what the kids were after.

REUTERS/Stephen HirdA couple of Bratz dolls bullying a Barbie doll. The hardest thing about shopping for toys might just be keeping up with the latest fads.

The hardest-to-find toys each holiday season since 1983

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